Trump has proven a divisive figure among the American electorate, but leads in most polls as the candidate most likely to earn the official GOP nomination and fight to become President.

His key pledges include protecting citizens' right to bear arms, building a wall across the US' southern border with Mexico, and drawing up wide-ranging reforms to trade agreements with China that would brand the Far Eastern country a "currency manipulator".

Trump speaking in Washington on Thursday

But Trump's prospective win in 2016 is not the first thing Hopkins has vowed to leave the UK over.